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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: printout
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-27 23:21:15
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On Monday 28 May 2001 02:11, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2001 16:14, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > > Urbildebene: Das Dreieck
> > >
> > > prints out as:
> > >
> > > Urbildebene:                    Das Dreieck
> > >
> > > Big gap between the first word. I am using Kword 1.1 beta 2
> >
> > Those words use different font sizes, right ?
> > That's a known bug, I'm discussing it with Reggie and Lars.
> > There is a workaround: start X with -dpi 75,75.
> > The trouble comes from the printing code in Qt/QRichText using X's
> > font metrics, so DPIs other than 75 lead to incorrect results.
> 
>  Good news! I reconfigured X so that it uses 1024 x 768 and the 
> letter mathe_kollineation.kwd previews and prints out correctly.  No 
> more big spaces. I was formerly using 1280 x 1024. 

It's not the actual size that matters, but the DPI value
You can check it with
xdpyinfo | grep resolution

and which you can set with 
exec X -dpi <value>
in ~/.xserverrc, if you use xdm or kdm.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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